You knew it was bound to happen. With all that talent strewn through the lineup, there was no way those guys could be held down for too long. I mean, even Will Smith made Hitch before he made I Am Legend. Guys with that much talent will eventually snap to their senses and realize that teaching Kevin James how to pick up chicks is a fruitless endeavor when contrasted with being the last human on earth fighting clever man-eating zombies. Cut to yesterday’s Rockies-Braves box score. For the Rockos, 12 runs, 13 hits, 5 guys with multi hit games, and a decisive win. What a day at the ballpark.
1) Finally we (I) can talk about our offense without being censored by the Colorado legislature. We scored a ton of runs! Yay! After scoring a grand total of 16 runs in the team’s first 8 games (Man, I wish that was a typo) we almost eclipsed that mark in the team’s 9th thanks to huge days from Ryan Spilborghs and Yorvit Torrealba. The day after a friend and I had had a fairly inebriated conversation about the merits of starting Jorv over the youngster Chris Iannetta (he was for Yorv and I for Christopher) Yorvit had to go and show me up with a 3 hit, 4 rbi game. In my defense, he was 1-14 on the homestand before last night’s eruption but hey I’ll be the last one to complain about that kind of production from our number 7 hitter. It was also nice to see Spilly flash his 2007 form with 5 rbis and a 3 run BOMB to dead center proving that the change of his batter’s ditty from Gwen Stefani’s “Sweet Escape” to Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” wouldn’t go down as the worst mistake of his career.
2) Mark Redman definitely pitched well enough to warrant another start. 5 innings, 3 runs (2 earned) 0 walks and 3 strikeouts won’t make you giddy, but it was good enough to win this game as the O finally stepped up. He also showed great grit by coming right back after taking a line drive off his shin in the 2nd inning. Cruel memories of Jason Hirsh’s season ending injury last year danced in my head, but after rubbing some dirt on it he faced runners on first and third and only one out. The pitcher Chuck James tried to suicide squeeze in a run, but Redman threw the perfect pitch: a high and inside sweeping curveball that James could do nothing more with than pop up. Redman made a sliding catch and casually tossed the ball to third to double off Brian McCann, keeping the game at 1-0, a key turning point before the Rox began to roll. You can't say enough about our starting pitching the last four games. In those games Franklin Morales, Aaron Cook, Ubaldo Jimenez, and Redman have combined to give up a paltry 6 earned runs in 24 innings. That pace cannot possibly be kept up during the course of a 162 game season (though Buddha, Vishnu, and L. Ron Hubbard have yet to return my prayers), but thus far it has kept my impending ulcer in check.
Since Jay Cutler seems to have angered the Elway gods with his public calling out of Brandon Marshall last week, the inhabitants of Denver find themselves under a vengeful snow that will postpone the final game of the Rockies-Braves series today. Never fear as now we will have a Friday night rematch between Jeff Franchise and Brandon Webb as Jeff looks to finally find his fine form in the Arizona desert.
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